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Commodity prices

The following were the prices (in Rs. per kg) of essential commodities in the local wholesale market on Monday, according to Vijayawada Chamber of Commerce and Industry:

Groundnut oil - 55, palmolein oil- 44.75, sunflower oil - 50.50, tamarind (flower variety) - 30 to 39, tamarind - 43 to 50, chillies- (new) 35 to 45, rice (2716)-14, rice (super fine)-15, rice (sona masoori)-18 to 19, rice (samba masoori)- 16, black gram-41.70 and red gram-23 to 28.

Tributes paid to carnage victims

Bahujan Samajwadi Party State general secretary S. Prabhakar on Monday said that no one was punished for the Karamchedu carnage even after 21 years. He was participating in a programme organised to pay tributes to the victims of the carnage. BC leader S. Lakshmana Rao and others took part in the meeting.

`Kutam' meet

Sri Parapalli Sriramulu Dharma Ramanuja Kutam executive officer G. V. Leela Kumar on Monday said the motto of the kutam was to protect the assets of the Endowments Department. Participating in the three-day festivities of kutam in city, Mr. Kumar paid floral tributes to Parapalli Sriramulu. Over 50 pundits were felicitated on the occasion. Endowments Department assistant commissioner R. Poli Reedy took part.

Chikungunya medicine distribution

Profit Shoe Company will distribute homoeopathy prophylactic for chikungunya free to 1.5 lakh families on Wednesday. Over 100 municipal corporation schools in the city will be converted into distribution centres. Headmasters of the respective schools and corporators of respective divisions will supervise the distribution of the medicine.

The distribution of the medicine will be inaugurated at a special function at the Municipal Corporation High School, Krishna Lanka at 10 a.m.

Regularisation sought

Vijayawada West MLA Sk. Nasar Vali has demanded that the Government regularise contract workers engaged by electricity companies.

Addressing a meeting organised by United Electricity Employees' Union here on Monday, Mr. Vali said that most contract workers had been working for more than 15 years in electricity related works.

Mr. Vali said that there were over 7,000 vacancies in electricity companies and the Government should fill these with contract workers.

He said the Communist Party of India had demanded that the problems of contract workers be solved.

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